History
1715
General
Population: 670 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Gian Vincenzo Gravina, Lesage, Matthew Prior (didactic poem), Nicholas Rowe Lady ane Grey,
Music includes Isaac Watts "Divine Songs for Children"
Art includes GB Tiepolo "Sacrifice of Isaac"
Irish actor James Quin appears in "Tamerlane"
Early beginnings of rococco
- Science: Mathematician Brook Taylor invents the calculus of finite differences
Halley discusses age of earth based on ocean salinity
- Deaths: Louis XIV of France, Philosopher Nicolas Malebranche, Poet Nahum Tate
Africa
- Mauritius: Occupied by France
Asia
- China: Italian Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione arrives in China and influences Chinese painting
Christian missionaries banned
- Japan: Dutch trade with Japan severely restricted
Europe
- France: End reign of Louis XIV (Sun King) of France after 72 years – 54 of being on the throne – Great-grandson Louis XV (age 5) rules to 1774 with Philip Duke of Orléans as regent
Vaudevilles (popular musical comedies) appear in France
First folding umbrella in France
- Great Britain: First Jacobite rising in Britain attempts to restore Stuart Dynasty – the "Fifteen" in Scotland and England build army
Thomas Foster leads English rebels in north and Earl of Mar in Scotland - march toward George I - unsure battle - Jacobites defeated at Sheriffmuir and Preston
French support dries up
First parliament of George I opens
Prize given for annual rowing race of Thames watermen – "Doggett's Coat and Badge" by Thomas Doggett
English painter and architect William Kent "frees the English garden from formality"
First Liverpool dock built
England becomes dominant world power
Middle East
- Afghanistan: Mir Abdullah becomes ruler in Kandahar
East
- Maryland: MD returns to being a proprietary colony
South
- Florida: Cyclone hits Straits of Florida sinking Spanish ships
- North Carolina: Slavery recognized, passes laws against racial cohabitation, slave meetings
- South Carolina: Yamasee nation attacks South Carolina colony, killing hundreds of English, are defeated